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noun

‘His line-out work was fine and he put himself about a bit in the loose.’

‘That is what we want to see against Australia - Scottish forwards going forward at the setpiece and in the loose.’

‘They introduced a new very experienced prop who started to cause problems in both the scrums and in the loose.’

‘Part of one of the best Premiership packs, he pushes his weight in the scrums and does his stint in the loose.’

‘The Irish line-out was majestic, only showing cracks in the quarter-final defeat to France, while the captain was also a raging inferno in the loose.’

verb

[with object]

1Set free; release.

‘the hounds have been loosed’

‘And I so badly want to surrender, desperate to loose myself but there is nothing.’

‘It had began to cause trouble in Sudan as well, loosing cattle, killing civilians, even attacking army forces.’

‘But with the party members being so mean and ungenerous, well… they'll have to let loose the dogs.’

‘The Spaniards also let loose a big dog on shore which chased the terrified Arawaks and bit several of them savagely.’

‘The prime minister is afraid that his protestations will be lost in the synthetic public outrage that is being loosed by the Eurosceptic media.’

‘Michael loaded the rest in the boot and got inside, just in case she decided to loose the beast as payback.’

‘Then about 150 years ago the glacial dam burst, loosing a 100-foot, landscape-scouring wave that wiped out entire villages.’

‘It was a unique chorus that was loosed when he and his colleagues sang their native songs in different dialects.’

‘The true events at the heart of the film inspire such a sense of injustice that any dramatisation risks the danger of turning into a howl of anguish that points the finger and lets loose the dogs of moral outrage.’

‘They loosed huge snakes into the water - anything within range was sucked into the swift murder of the suction.’

‘At the end of the millennial reign, Satan will be loosed and a massive rebellion against the kingdom and a fierce assault against Christ and His saints will occur.’

‘One problem with loosing the dogs of war is that sometimes it's hard to get them back on the leash.’

‘We loosed the horses and unpacked our things as we had always done, and I built our fire and warmed our food as I had each night; but tonight we both knew that this was the last time we should live this way.’

‘Hybrid crops - these are all human-made freaks of nature, that cannot be loosed upon the ecosystem.’

‘You can see why Rummy would want to loose off a little cannon fire at anybody who wrote this up.’

‘in this part of the line we are surrounded and overlooked by the Germans on almost every side and they have a great number of guns in good positions which they loose off pretty continuously.’

‘If there is a sniper downwind of you, he will sniff the air, smell your urine, and loose off a whole clip at you, even though he can't see you.’

‘From time to time he'd drop back through the curtains, probably to reload, and then come back to loose off another magazine.’

‘We loosed off a few shots at the various damaged crockery I had scavenged and then I thought I would try a cunning scheme.’

‘Tornado, Jaguar and Harrier jets, of the Royal Air Force, scream overhead loosing off powerful projectiles which thud into the targets below.’

‘Each weapon also has two firing modes, the secondary usually producing a much more lethal punch either by virtue of increased fire rate or the size and number of shots that can be loosed off simultaneously.’

‘The standard issue weapon is, of course, a hand phaser, which looses off a continuous stream of energy until its power cell is depleted.’

‘He loosed off a couple of shots down the corridor, the kitchen staff were pouring out into the street outside.’

‘Plumes of white smoke and sparks rose into the evening sky as each man o’ war loosed off a deafening broadside.’

‘Visually striking and intriguing in concept, the link gun also takes its name from its secondary fire mode, which encourages the player to loose off a stream of fire towards a similarly armed team mate.’

‘Bull's eye targets were set up in the garden and under strict supervision the lads loosed off some rounds.’

‘Therein lies the rub though, as the horizontal turning arcs of the turrets of both tanks are extremely limited, thus the entire unit needs to turn in order to loose off an accurate shot.’

‘Sarah peeked over, spotting quickly to loose off another arrow before she was sniped off.’

‘Well, there was always gunfire but that was men loosing off or practising way back in the hills.’